Negative Modifiers

onishin · 07-07-2008, 01:18

I think D3 should bring back negative mods (like -10 life). That way, choosing if we should wear an item would be much more interesting! Do I need that nifty bonus to my attack speed? Oh, it lowers my mana regen! Whatever, I'm a barbarian!

phool · 07-07-2008, 01:41

Negative modifiers makes for interesting uniques. Balance wise, Blizz would have to be careful about attempting to balance a significent positive mod with a significent negative mod however.

5zigen · 07-07-2008, 06:15

I think it's an ok idea, IF blizzard gets rid of the plethora of OTHER useless mods on items.

Grunthex · 07-07-2008, 09:05

I think it'd be interesting if there were some serious negative modifiers possible, but each time one was added to an item, an additional positive modifier of equal or higher level to the negative modifier was added.

"With great power comes great chance of blowing yourself up"

Jcakes · 07-07-2008, 09:16

That was one of the things I liked about the uniques in Diablo 1, they had good modifiers that were balanced with negative modifiers.

lionheart · 07-07-2008, 09:16

Yea and most people would avoid them leaning more towards the items that are just "good"

jamesisbest · 07-07-2008, 12:56

It would be cool. I'm sure people would be searching for items with good modifiers that help their class and with negative modifiers that don't affect their build if having negative modifiers boosts the items in a way. They just need to make sure having - modifiers don't have the nasty bugs it did in diablo 2 before they got rid of nearly all of them.

DBaron · 07-07-2008, 13:21

I say no. No negative modifiers on my items please.

Intolerance · 07-07-2008, 15:04

There are enough worthless mods on rare items that you don't need negative mods to keep them in check. Godly rares are extremely, well, rare.

I'm all for negative mods on uniques. Or at least better balance so no unique is the absolute best option. I like Goblin Toe is this respect- you can get a non-boot mod (crushing blow) by sacrificing any other good boot mods- r/w speed, resists, str dex, life.

Many uniques in D2 are overpowered and I hope to see them fill a niche rather than be the end-all-be-all items that many of them are.

Cwicseolfor · 08-07-2008, 08:00

I'm all for it!

I was annoyed when Blizzard removed negative mods in Diablo 2. It's not even so much about balance - just interesting items and tough decisions; variety is the spice of life.